Northrop Grumman tests oblique flying wing X-plane in windtunnel
Posted on: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 | Flight Global

Northrop Grumman is beginning high-speed windtunnel testing of the oblique flying wing X-plane it is designing for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. If built, the OFW technology demonstrator will be the first supersonic, tailless, variable-sweep flying wing.

MDA Conducts Successful Rocket Motor Test for Kinetic Energy Interceptor
Posted on: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 | Missile Defense Agency

Lieutenant General Henry "Trey" Obering, Missile Defense Agency director, announced today the successful completion of an important Stage 1 rocket motor test for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) program. Conducted at the Alliant Techsystems (ATK) test facility in Promontory, Utah on Sept. 6, th...

Pratt & Whitney checks F-35 JSF engine after test anomaly
Posted on: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 | Flight Global

Pratt & Whitney is inspecting an F135 test engine after it automatically shut down following a stall indication during ground testing for the short take-off and vertical landing variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Boeing Wins $1.1 Billion KC-135 Tanker Maintenance Contract
Posted on: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 | Boeing

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a 10-year, $1.1 billion U.S. Air Force contract to continue providing programmed depot maintenance (PDM) for the nation's KC-135 Stratotanker fleet. Boeing will perform the work for more than 200 KC-135 aircraft at facilitie...

Taranis UAV Takes Big Step Nearer Reality
Posted on: Tue Sep 11th, 2007 | BAE Systems

Warton, UK - The 124m Pound Taranis unmanned air vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator programme led by BAE Systems, has moved closer to reality.